Michael A. Peters wrote:
Windows was installed as the master drive. Due to issues with Fedora C2T1 installer - I wanted to easily detach the windows drive whenever installing a linux distro. To facilitate that - I made the XP drive be the slave - and use a boot loader on a floppy called "gag" to boot windows, as it can switch the drive letters so the XP thinks it is still on C:\ and doesn't have a heart attack.
That works - but I'd rather not have to insert a floppy every time I want to boot windows, I'd rather do it from grub.
I tried adding the following to grub - which I thought would work (switching drive letters) based upon the documentation - but it doesn't seem to:
title Windows XP map (hd0)(hd1) map (hd1)(hd0) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
Anyone know why? Shout the rootnoverify line refer to (hd1,0) even though I already have used map to switch them?
Here's my pertinent grub.conf section:
title Win2K
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1I don't know if it makes a difference that I mapped hd1 to hd0 first or not, but certainly the makeactive is needed... :)
Also, looks like the rootnoverify needs to refer to the original drive.
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